Slovensko / Slovakia / Eslováquia
Is a landlocked country in Central Europe with a population of over five million and an area of about 49,000 square kilometres (19,000 sq mi). Slovakia borders the Czech Republic and Austria to the west, Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east and Hungary to the south. The largest city is its capital, Bratislava. The second largest city is Košice. Slovakia is a member state of the European Union, NATO, UN, OECD, WTO, UNESCO and other international organizations.
The Slavs arrived in the territory of present day Slovakia in the fifth and sixth centuries AD during the Migration Period. In the course of history, various parts of today's Slovakia belonged to Samo's Empire (the first known political unit of Slavs), Great Moravia, Kingdom of Hungary, the Austro-Hungarian Empire or Habsburg Empire, and Czechoslovakia. An independent Slovak state briefly existed during World War II, during which Slovakia was a dependency of the Nazi Germany 1939–1944. From 1945 Slovakia once again became a part of Czechoslovakia. The present-day Slovakia became an independent state on January 1, 1993 after the peaceful dissolution of its federation with the Czech Republic.
Slovakia is a high-income advanced economy with one of the fastest growth rates in the EU and OECD. The country joined the European Union in 2004 and the Eurozone on January 1, 2009. As of 2010, Slovakia together with Slovenia are the only former Communist nations to be part of European Union, Eurozone, Schengen Area and NATO simultaneously.
History
Please go to :
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Slovakia
Geography
The Slovak landscape is noted primarily for its mountainous nature, with the Carpathian Mountains extending across most of the northern half of the country. Amongst these mountain ranges are the high peaks of the Tatra mountains. To the north, close to the Polish border, are the High Tatras which are a popular skiing destination and home to many scenic lakes and valleys as well as the highest point in Slovakia, the Gerlachovský štít at 2,655 metres (8,711 ft), and the country's highly symbolic mountain Kriváň.
Major Slovak rivers are the Danube, the Váh and the Hron. The Tisa marks the Slovak-Hungarian border for only 5 km.
The Slovak climate lies between the temperate and continental climate zones with relatively warm summers and cold, cloudy and humid winters. The area of Slovakia can be divided into three kinds of climatic zones and the first zone can be divided into two sub-zones.
Other Info
Ofical name:
Slovenská Republika
Independence:
January 1, 1993
Area:
49.035 km2
Inhabitants:
6.000.000
Languages:
Croatian [hrv] Dialects: Croatian. Classification: Indo-European, Slavic, South, Western
More information.
German, Standard [deu] 15,000 in Czech Republic (1999). Classification: Indo-European, Germanic, West, High German, German, Middle German, East Middle German
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Hungarian [hun] 597,400 in Slovakia (1993). In the south. Alternate names: Magyar. Classification: Uralic, Finno-Ugric, Ugric, Hungarian
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Polish [pol] 50,000 in Slovakia. Alternate names: Polski. Classification: Indo-European, Slavic, West, Lechitic
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Romani, Carpathian [rmc] 220,000 in Slovakia (1980 UBS). Population includes Czech Republic. Northern, eastern, and southern Slovakia. Alternate names: Bashaldo, Romungro, Hungarian-Slovak Romani. Dialects: Moravian Romani, East Slovakian Romani, West Slovakian Romani. Classification: Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Indo-Aryan, Central zone, Romani, Northern
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Romani, Vlax [rmy] 500 Lovari in Slovakia. Dialects: Lovari, Kalderash (Kaldarári). Classification: Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Indo-Aryan, Central zone, Romani, Vlax
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Rusyn [rue] 50,000 in Slovakia (1991 census). Northeast Slovakia, Preshov Region. Alternate names: Ruthenian, Carpathian, Carpatho-Rusyn. Dialects: Lemko. Classification: Indo-European, Slavic, East
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Slovak [slk] 4,865,450 in Slovakia (1990 WA). Population total all countries: 5,011,120. Western upland country around Bratislava. Also spoken in Canada, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Serbia and Montenegro, Ukraine, USA. Alternate names: Slovakian. Dialects: Western and central dialects of Slovak are inherently intelligible with Czech. Classification: Indo-European, Slavic, West, Czech-Slovak
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Slovakian Sign Language [svk] Classification: Deaf sign language
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Ukrainian [ukr] 100,000 in Slovakia. Classification: Indo-European, Slavic, East
Capital city:
Bratislava
Meaning country name:
The origin of the word Slav remains controversial. Excluding the ambiguous mention by Ptolemy of tribes Stavanoi and Soubenoi, the earliest references of "Slavs" under this name are from the 6th century. The word is written variously as Sklabenoi, Sklauenoi, or Sklabinoi in Byzantine Greek, and as Sclaueni, Sclauini, or Sthlaueni in Latin. The oldest documents written in Old Church Slavonic and dating from the 9th century attest slověne to describe the Slavs around Thessalonica. Other early attestations include Old Russian slověně "an East Slavic group near Novgorod", Slovutich "Dnieper river", and Serbo-Croatian Slavonica, a river.
There are two alternative scholarly theories as to the origin of the Slavs ethnonym, both very tentative: according to the first theory[1], it derives from a hypothetically reconstructed Proto-Indo-European *(s)lawos, cognate to Greek laós "population, people", which itself has no commonly accepted etymology. The second theory (forwarded by e.g. Max Vasmer) suggests that the word originated as a river name (compare the etymology of the Volcae), comparing it with such cognates as Latin cluere "to cleanse, purge", a root not known to have been continued in Slavic, however, and it appears in other languages with similar meanings (cf. Greek klyzein "to wash", Old English hlūtor "clean, pure", Old Norse hlér "sea", Welsh clir "clear, clean", Lithuanian šlúoti "to sweep").
Folk etymologies and scholars such as Roman Jacobson traditionally link the name either with the word sláva "glory", "fame" or slovo "word, talk" (both akin to OSl slusati "to hear" from the IE root *kleu-). Thus slověne would mean "people who speak (the same language)", i.e. people who understand each other, as opposed to the Slavic word for foreign nations, nemtsi, meaning "speechless people" (from Slavic němi - mute, silent, dumb), as for example in Polish: Niemcy is Germany.
Description Flag:
The current form of the flag of Slovakia was adopted by Slovakia's Constitution, which came into force on September 3, 1992. The flag, in common with other Slavic nations, uses the red, white and blue colours.
Slovakia's flag in its current form (but with another seal on it or without any seal) can be dated back to the revolutionary year 1848, when Slovaks were fighting against the Magyars (see: The Revolutions of 1848 in the Habsburg areas). It was also used semi-officially in Czechoslovakia before World War II, by the Slovak Republic during WWII, and finally adopted (without the seal) on March 1, 1990 as the flag of the Slovak Republic within Czechoslovakia. The seal was added on September 3, 1992 and a special law describing the details of the flag followed in February 1993.
The blue triangle in the current flag of the Czech Republic, with which Slovakia formed Czechoslovakia up to the Dissolution of Czechoslovakia, was taken over from the blue strip of Slovakia's flag in 1920 into the flag of Czechoslovakia. The flag of Czechoslovakia was taken over by the Czech Republic in late 1992 in direct violation of the 1992 Act on the Division of Czechoslovakia explicitly forbidding state symbols to be used by the two successor states.
Since the Slovak flag without the seal is identical to that of the modern Flag of Russia and it can also be compared to the modern Flag of Slovenia, the Constitution of Slovakia added the seal in September 1992. The seal is Slovakia's coat of arms. For a description of the seal (a double cross and three hills), see Coat of Arms of Slovakia.
Coat of arms:
The coat of arms of Slovakia is composed of a silver (argent) double cross, elevated on the middle peak of a dark blue mountain consisting of three peaks. It is situated on a red (gules) early gothic shield. Extremities of the cross are amplificated, and its ends are concaved.
The double cross in the Slovak coat of arms originated in the Byzantine (Eastern Roman) Empire. The symbol, the so-called patriarchal cross, appeared in the Byzantine Empire in huge numbers in the 9th century. While the interpretation of a simple Christian cross is quite unambiguous, there are many explanations for the meaning of the double cross. One of them says that the first horizontal line symbolized the secular power and the other horizontal line the ecclesiastic power of Byzantine emperors. The first cross represents the death and the second cross the resurrection of Jesus Christ. In the Byzantine Empire of the 9th century, the double cross was not a religious, but a political symbol used by Byzantine clerks and missionaries.
The double cross arrived in the territory of current-day Slovakia probably not later than during the 9th century mission of Cyril and Methodius to Great Moravia. This traditional Slovak view has been recently disputed. Though used frequently in Great Moravia, it was not a state symbol at that time, because there were no state symbols in the modern sense in Europe at that time yet. It is however possible that it was used as a symbol of the king (analogously to the eagle of the Frankish kings). By means of Zwentibold (the ruler of Lorraine, son of the German emperor Arnulf of Carinthia and godchild of the Great Moravian king Svatopluk I), this symbol got to Lorraine and is called the cross of Lorraine there.
National Anthem: Nad Tatrou sa blýska
Nad Tatrou sa blýska
hromy divo bijú.
Zastavme ich* bratia,
ved' sa ony stratia,
Slováci ožijú.
To Slovensko naše
posiaľ tvrdo spalo.
Ale blesky hromu
vzbudzujú ho k tomu,
aby sa prebralo.
Už Slovensko vstáva
putá si strháva
Hej rodina milá
hodina odbila,
žije matka Sláva
Ešte jedle rastú
na krivánskej strane
Kto jak Slovák cíti,
nech sa šable chytí,
a medzi nás stane
English
There is lightning over the Tatra,
thunderclaps are striking ferociously.
Let us stop them, brothers, (or Let us stop, brothers, in the version with "sa")
(you will see that) they will disappear,
the Slovaks will revive.
This, our Slovakia
has long been fast asleep.
But the lightning of the thunder
is rousing it
to wake up.
Already Slovakia is waking up,
throwing off its bonds
Hey dear family
the hour has ticked away
Mother Glory is alive (Glory = Sláva, the word, which according to some forms the base of the words Slovaks and Slavs)
Firs yet grow
on the slopes of Kriváň
Whoever considers himself a Slovak,
may he take a sabre
and rise with us.
Internet Page: www.government.gov.sk
Slovakia in diferent languages
eng | bre | fao | fin | jav | kal | lin | nor | roh-enb | roh-eno | swa: Slovakia
ast | glg | oci | spa: Eslovaquia
crh | gag | kaa | uzb: Slovakiya / Словакия
ina | roh-gri | roh-srs | rup: Slovachia
cos | ita | scn: Slovacchia
deu | ltz | nds: Slowakei / Slowakei
fra | frp | jnf: Slovaquie
hau | kin | run: Slovakiya
ces | slk: Slovensko
cor | hat: Slovaki
dsb | hsb: Słowakska
est | vor: Slovakkia
ind | msa: Slovakia / سلوۏاكيا
afr: Slowakye
arg: Eslobaquia
aze: Slovakiya / Словакија
bam: Silɔwaki
bos: Slovačka / Словачка
cat: Eslovàquia
csb: Słowackô
cym: Slofacia
dan: Slovakiet
epo: Slovakujo; Slovakio
eus: Eslovakia
fry: Slowakije
fur: Slovachie
gla: An t-Slòbhac; Slobhaigia
gle: An tSlóvaic / An tSlóvaic; An tSlóbhaic / An tSlóḃaic
glv: Yn Clovack
hrv: Slovačka
hun: Szlovákia
ibo: Slọvekia
isl: Slóvakía
kmr: Slovakî / Словаки / سلۆڤاکی; Slavakî / Славаки / سلاڤاکی
kur: Slovakya / سلۆڤاکیا
lat: Slovachia; Slovakia; Slovacia
lav: Slovākija
lim: Slowakieë
lit: Slovakija
lld-bad: Slovachia
lld-grd: Slabochia
mlg: Slôvakia
mlt: Slovakkja; Slovakja
mol: Slovacia / Словачия
mri: Horowākia
nld: Slowakije
nrm: Eslovaqùie
pol: Słowacja
por: Eslováquia
que: Isluwakya
rmy: Slovaiko / स्लोवाइको
ron: Slovacia
slo: Slovakia / Словакиа; Slovakzem / Словакзем
slv: Slovaška
sme: Slovákia
smg: Slovakėjė
smo: Solovakia
sqi: Sllovakia
srd: Islovàkia
swe: Slovakien
szl: Suowacyjo
tet: Eslovákia
tgl: Slobakya
ton: Silōvakia
tuk: Slowakiýa / Словакия
tur: Slovakya; İslovakya
vie: Xlô-va-ki-a
vol: Slovakän
wln: Eslovakeye
wol: Eslowaaki
zza: Slowakya
chu: Словѣньско (Slověnĭsko)
alt | bul | kir | kjh | kom | krc | kum | rus | tyv | udm: Словакия (Slovakija)
che | chv | oss: Словаки (Slovaki)
mon | xal: Словак (Slovak)
abq: Словакия (Słovakija)
bak: Словакия / Slovakiya
bel: Славакія / Słavakija; Славаччына / Słavaččyna
chm: Словакий (Slovakij)
kaz: Словакия / Slovakïya / سلوۆاكيا
kbd: Словакие (Slovakie)
mkd: Словачка (Slovačka)
srp: Словачка / Slovačka
tat: Словакия / Slovakiä
tgk: Словакия / سلاوکیه / Slovakija
ukr: Словаччина (Slovaččyna)
ara: سلوفاكيا (Silūfākiyā)
fas: اسلواکی / اسلوواکی / Eslovâki
prs: سلواکیا (Slovākiyā)
pus: سلوواکيا / سلواکيا (Slowākiyā); سلوواکي / سلواکي (Slowākī)
uig: سلوۋاكىيە / Slowakiye / Словакия
urd: سلواکیا (Salavākiyā); سلوواکیا (Salovākiyā); سلویکیا (Salavækiyā); سلوواکیہ (Salovākiyâ)
div: ސްލޯވެކިއާ (Slōveki'ā)
syr: ܣܠܘܦܟܝܐ (Slōpakiyā); ܣܠܘܒܩܝܐ (Slōbaqiyā)
heb: סלובקיה (Slôṿaqyah); סלובאקיה (Slôṿâqyah)
lad: איסלוב'אקיה / Eslovakia
yid: סלאָװאַקײַ (Slovakay)
amh: ስሎቫኪያ (Slovakiya)
ell: Σλοβακία (Slovakía)
hye: Սլովակիա (Slovakia)
kat: სლოვაკეთი (Slovakeṭi); სლოვაკია (Slovakia)
hin: स्लोवाकिया (Slovākiyā); स्लोवेकिया (Slovekiyā)
nep: स्लोभाकिया (Slobʰākiyā)
ben: স্লোভাকিয়া (Slobʰākiyā)
pan: ਸਲੋਵਾਕੀਆ (Slovākīā)
kan: ಸ್ಲೊವಾಕಿಯ (Slovākiya)
mal: സ്ലോവാക്യ (Slōvākya)
tam: ஸ்லொவாக்கியா (Slovākkiyā)
tel: స్లొవాకియా (Slovākiyā)
zho: 斯洛伐克 (Sīluòfákè)
yue: 斯洛伐克 (Sīlāaifahāk)
jpn: スロヴァキア (Surovakia); スロバキア (Surobakia)
kor: 슬로바키아 (Seullobakia)
bod: སི་ལོ་ཕ་ཁེ་ (Si.lo.pʰa.kʰe.); སི་ལོ་ཏྥུ་ཁེ་ (Si.lo.tpʰu.kʰe.)
mya: ဆလုိဗက္ကီးယား (Sʰálobeʿkìyà)
tha: สโลวาเกีย (Salōwākiya)
lao: ສະໂລວາກີ (Salōvākī)
khm: ស្លូវ៉ាគី (Slūvākī)
Slovensko / Slovakia / Eslováquia
Is a landlocked country in Central Europe with a population of over five million and an area of about 49,000 square kilometres (19,000 sq mi). Slovakia borders the Czech Republic and Austria to the west, Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east and Hungary to the south. The largest city is its capital, Bratislava. The second largest city is Košice. Slovakia is a member state of the European Union, NATO, UN, OECD, WTO, UNESCO and other international organizations.
The Slavs arrived in the territory of present day Slovakia in the fifth and sixth centuries AD during the Migration Period. In the course of history, various parts of today's Slovakia belonged to Samo's Empire (the first known political unit of Slavs), Great Moravia, Kingdom of Hungary, the Austro-Hungarian Empire or Habsburg Empire, and Czechoslovakia. An independent Slovak state briefly existed during World War II, during which Slovakia was a dependency of the Nazi Germany 1939–1944. From 1945 Slovakia once again became a part of Czechoslovakia. The present-day Slovakia became an independent state on January 1, 1993 after the peaceful dissolution of its federation with the Czech Republic.
Slovakia is a high-income advanced economy with one of the fastest growth rates in the EU and OECD. The country joined the European Union in 2004 and the Eurozone on January 1, 2009. As of 2010, Slovakia together with Slovenia are the only former Communist nations to be part of European Union, Eurozone, Schengen Area and NATO simultaneously.
History
Please go to :
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Slovakia
Geography
The Slovak landscape is noted primarily for its mountainous nature, with the Carpathian Mountains extending across most of the northern half of the country. Amongst these mountain ranges are the high peaks of the Tatra mountains. To the north, close to the Polish border, are the High Tatras which are a popular skiing destination and home to many scenic lakes and valleys as well as the highest point in Slovakia, the Gerlachovský štít at 2,655 metres (8,711 ft), and the country's highly symbolic mountain Kriváň.
Major Slovak rivers are the Danube, the Váh and the Hron. The Tisa marks the Slovak-Hungarian border for only 5 km.
The Slovak climate lies between the temperate and continental climate zones with relatively warm summers and cold, cloudy and humid winters. The area of Slovakia can be divided into three kinds of climatic zones and the first zone can be divided into two sub-zones.
Other Info
Ofical name:
Slovenská Republika
Independence:
January 1, 1993
Area:
49.035 km2
Inhabitants:
6.000.000
Languages:
Croatian [hrv] Dialects: Croatian. Classification: Indo-European, Slavic, South, Western
More information.
German, Standard [deu] 15,000 in Czech Republic (1999). Classification: Indo-European, Germanic, West, High German, German, Middle German, East Middle German
More information.
Hungarian [hun] 597,400 in Slovakia (1993). In the south. Alternate names: Magyar. Classification: Uralic, Finno-Ugric, Ugric, Hungarian
More information.
Polish [pol] 50,000 in Slovakia. Alternate names: Polski. Classification: Indo-European, Slavic, West, Lechitic
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Romani, Carpathian [rmc] 220,000 in Slovakia (1980 UBS). Population includes Czech Republic. Northern, eastern, and southern Slovakia. Alternate names: Bashaldo, Romungro, Hungarian-Slovak Romani. Dialects: Moravian Romani, East Slovakian Romani, West Slovakian Romani. Classification: Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Indo-Aryan, Central zone, Romani, Northern
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Romani, Vlax [rmy] 500 Lovari in Slovakia. Dialects: Lovari, Kalderash (Kaldarári). Classification: Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Indo-Aryan, Central zone, Romani, Vlax
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Rusyn [rue] 50,000 in Slovakia (1991 census). Northeast Slovakia, Preshov Region. Alternate names: Ruthenian, Carpathian, Carpatho-Rusyn. Dialects: Lemko. Classification: Indo-European, Slavic, East
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Slovak [slk] 4,865,450 in Slovakia (1990 WA). Population total all countries: 5,011,120. Western upland country around Bratislava. Also spoken in Canada, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Serbia and Montenegro, Ukraine, USA. Alternate names: Slovakian. Dialects: Western and central dialects of Slovak are inherently intelligible with Czech. Classification: Indo-European, Slavic, West, Czech-Slovak
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Slovakian Sign Language [svk] Classification: Deaf sign language
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Ukrainian [ukr] 100,000 in Slovakia. Classification: Indo-European, Slavic, East
Capital city:
Bratislava
Meaning country name:
The origin of the word Slav remains controversial. Excluding the ambiguous mention by Ptolemy of tribes Stavanoi and Soubenoi, the earliest references of "Slavs" under this name are from the 6th century. The word is written variously as Sklabenoi, Sklauenoi, or Sklabinoi in Byzantine Greek, and as Sclaueni, Sclauini, or Sthlaueni in Latin. The oldest documents written in Old Church Slavonic and dating from the 9th century attest slověne to describe the Slavs around Thessalonica. Other early attestations include Old Russian slověně "an East Slavic group near Novgorod", Slovutich "Dnieper river", and Serbo-Croatian Slavonica, a river.
There are two alternative scholarly theories as to the origin of the Slavs ethnonym, both very tentative: according to the first theory[1], it derives from a hypothetically reconstructed Proto-Indo-European *(s)lawos, cognate to Greek laós "population, people", which itself has no commonly accepted etymology. The second theory (forwarded by e.g. Max Vasmer) suggests that the word originated as a river name (compare the etymology of the Volcae), comparing it with such cognates as Latin cluere "to cleanse, purge", a root not known to have been continued in Slavic, however, and it appears in other languages with similar meanings (cf. Greek klyzein "to wash", Old English hlūtor "clean, pure", Old Norse hlér "sea", Welsh clir "clear, clean", Lithuanian šlúoti "to sweep").
Folk etymologies and scholars such as Roman Jacobson traditionally link the name either with the word sláva "glory", "fame" or slovo "word, talk" (both akin to OSl slusati "to hear" from the IE root *kleu-). Thus slověne would mean "people who speak (the same language)", i.e. people who understand each other, as opposed to the Slavic word for foreign nations, nemtsi, meaning "speechless people" (from Slavic němi - mute, silent, dumb), as for example in Polish: Niemcy is Germany.
Description Flag:
The current form of the flag of Slovakia was adopted by Slovakia's Constitution, which came into force on September 3, 1992. The flag, in common with other Slavic nations, uses the red, white and blue colours.
Slovakia's flag in its current form (but with another seal on it or without any seal) can be dated back to the revolutionary year 1848, when Slovaks were fighting against the Magyars (see: The Revolutions of 1848 in the Habsburg areas). It was also used semi-officially in Czechoslovakia before World War II, by the Slovak Republic during WWII, and finally adopted (without the seal) on March 1, 1990 as the flag of the Slovak Republic within Czechoslovakia. The seal was added on September 3, 1992 and a special law describing the details of the flag followed in February 1993.
The blue triangle in the current flag of the Czech Republic, with which Slovakia formed Czechoslovakia up to the Dissolution of Czechoslovakia, was taken over from the blue strip of Slovakia's flag in 1920 into the flag of Czechoslovakia. The flag of Czechoslovakia was taken over by the Czech Republic in late 1992 in direct violation of the 1992 Act on the Division of Czechoslovakia explicitly forbidding state symbols to be used by the two successor states.
Since the Slovak flag without the seal is identical to that of the modern Flag of Russia and it can also be compared to the modern Flag of Slovenia, the Constitution of Slovakia added the seal in September 1992. The seal is Slovakia's coat of arms. For a description of the seal (a double cross and three hills), see Coat of Arms of Slovakia.
Coat of arms:
The coat of arms of Slovakia is composed of a silver (argent) double cross, elevated on the middle peak of a dark blue mountain consisting of three peaks. It is situated on a red (gules) early gothic shield. Extremities of the cross are amplificated, and its ends are concaved.
The double cross in the Slovak coat of arms originated in the Byzantine (Eastern Roman) Empire. The symbol, the so-called patriarchal cross, appeared in the Byzantine Empire in huge numbers in the 9th century. While the interpretation of a simple Christian cross is quite unambiguous, there are many explanations for the meaning of the double cross. One of them says that the first horizontal line symbolized the secular power and the other horizontal line the ecclesiastic power of Byzantine emperors. The first cross represents the death and the second cross the resurrection of Jesus Christ. In the Byzantine Empire of the 9th century, the double cross was not a religious, but a political symbol used by Byzantine clerks and missionaries.
The double cross arrived in the territory of current-day Slovakia probably not later than during the 9th century mission of Cyril and Methodius to Great Moravia. This traditional Slovak view has been recently disputed. Though used frequently in Great Moravia, it was not a state symbol at that time, because there were no state symbols in the modern sense in Europe at that time yet. It is however possible that it was used as a symbol of the king (analogously to the eagle of the Frankish kings). By means of Zwentibold (the ruler of Lorraine, son of the German emperor Arnulf of Carinthia and godchild of the Great Moravian king Svatopluk I), this symbol got to Lorraine and is called the cross of Lorraine there.
National Anthem: Nad Tatrou sa blýska
Nad Tatrou sa blýska
hromy divo bijú.
Zastavme ich* bratia,
ved' sa ony stratia,
Slováci ožijú.
To Slovensko naše
posiaľ tvrdo spalo.
Ale blesky hromu
vzbudzujú ho k tomu,
aby sa prebralo.
Už Slovensko vstáva
putá si strháva
Hej rodina milá
hodina odbila,
žije matka Sláva
Ešte jedle rastú
na krivánskej strane
Kto jak Slovák cíti,
nech sa šable chytí,
a medzi nás stane
English
There is lightning over the Tatra,
thunderclaps are striking ferociously.
Let us stop them, brothers, (or Let us stop, brothers, in the version with "sa")
(you will see that) they will disappear,
the Slovaks will revive.
This, our Slovakia
has long been fast asleep.
But the lightning of the thunder
is rousing it
to wake up.
Already Slovakia is waking up,
throwing off its bonds
Hey dear family
the hour has ticked away
Mother Glory is alive (Glory = Sláva, the word, which according to some forms the base of the words Slovaks and Slavs)
Firs yet grow
on the slopes of Kriváň
Whoever considers himself a Slovak,
may he take a sabre
and rise with us.
Internet Page: www.government.gov.sk
Slovakia in diferent languages
eng | bre | fao | fin | jav | kal | lin | nor | roh-enb | roh-eno | swa: Slovakia
ast | glg | oci | spa: Eslovaquia
crh | gag | kaa | uzb: Slovakiya / Словакия
ina | roh-gri | roh-srs | rup: Slovachia
cos | ita | scn: Slovacchia
deu | ltz | nds: Slowakei / Slowakei
fra | frp | jnf: Slovaquie
hau | kin | run: Slovakiya
ces | slk: Slovensko
cor | hat: Slovaki
dsb | hsb: Słowakska
est | vor: Slovakkia
ind | msa: Slovakia / سلوۏاكيا
afr: Slowakye
arg: Eslobaquia
aze: Slovakiya / Словакија
bam: Silɔwaki
bos: Slovačka / Словачка
cat: Eslovàquia
csb: Słowackô
cym: Slofacia
dan: Slovakiet
epo: Slovakujo; Slovakio
eus: Eslovakia
fry: Slowakije
fur: Slovachie
gla: An t-Slòbhac; Slobhaigia
gle: An tSlóvaic / An tSlóvaic; An tSlóbhaic / An tSlóḃaic
glv: Yn Clovack
hrv: Slovačka
hun: Szlovákia
ibo: Slọvekia
isl: Slóvakía
kmr: Slovakî / Словаки / سلۆڤاکی; Slavakî / Славаки / سلاڤاکی
kur: Slovakya / سلۆڤاکیا
lat: Slovachia; Slovakia; Slovacia
lav: Slovākija
lim: Slowakieë
lit: Slovakija
lld-bad: Slovachia
lld-grd: Slabochia
mlg: Slôvakia
mlt: Slovakkja; Slovakja
mol: Slovacia / Словачия
mri: Horowākia
nld: Slowakije
nrm: Eslovaqùie
pol: Słowacja
por: Eslováquia
que: Isluwakya
rmy: Slovaiko / स्लोवाइको
ron: Slovacia
slo: Slovakia / Словакиа; Slovakzem / Словакзем
slv: Slovaška
sme: Slovákia
smg: Slovakėjė
smo: Solovakia
sqi: Sllovakia
srd: Islovàkia
swe: Slovakien
szl: Suowacyjo
tet: Eslovákia
tgl: Slobakya
ton: Silōvakia
tuk: Slowakiýa / Словакия
tur: Slovakya; İslovakya
vie: Xlô-va-ki-a
vol: Slovakän
wln: Eslovakeye
wol: Eslowaaki
zza: Slowakya
chu: Словѣньско (Slověnĭsko)
alt | bul | kir | kjh | kom | krc | kum | rus | tyv | udm: Словакия (Slovakija)
che | chv | oss: Словаки (Slovaki)
mon | xal: Словак (Slovak)
abq: Словакия (Słovakija)
bak: Словакия / Slovakiya
bel: Славакія / Słavakija; Славаччына / Słavaččyna
chm: Словакий (Slovakij)
kaz: Словакия / Slovakïya / سلوۆاكيا
kbd: Словакие (Slovakie)
mkd: Словачка (Slovačka)
srp: Словачка / Slovačka
tat: Словакия / Slovakiä
tgk: Словакия / سلاوکیه / Slovakija
ukr: Словаччина (Slovaččyna)
ara: سلوفاكيا (Silūfākiyā)
fas: اسلواکی / اسلوواکی / Eslovâki
prs: سلواکیا (Slovākiyā)
pus: سلوواکيا / سلواکيا (Slowākiyā); سلوواکي / سلواکي (Slowākī)
uig: سلوۋاكىيە / Slowakiye / Словакия
urd: سلواکیا (Salavākiyā); سلوواکیا (Salovākiyā); سلویکیا (Salavækiyā); سلوواکیہ (Salovākiyâ)
div: ސްލޯވެކިއާ (Slōveki'ā)
syr: ܣܠܘܦܟܝܐ (Slōpakiyā); ܣܠܘܒܩܝܐ (Slōbaqiyā)
heb: סלובקיה (Slôṿaqyah); סלובאקיה (Slôṿâqyah)
lad: איסלוב'אקיה / Eslovakia
yid: סלאָװאַקײַ (Slovakay)
amh: ስሎቫኪያ (Slovakiya)
ell: Σλοβακία (Slovakía)
hye: Սլովակիա (Slovakia)
kat: სლოვაკეთი (Slovakeṭi); სლოვაკია (Slovakia)
hin: स्लोवाकिया (Slovākiyā); स्लोवेकिया (Slovekiyā)
nep: स्लोभाकिया (Slobʰākiyā)
ben: স্লোভাকিয়া (Slobʰākiyā)
pan: ਸਲੋਵਾਕੀਆ (Slovākīā)
kan: ಸ್ಲೊವಾಕಿಯ (Slovākiya)
mal: സ്ലോവാക്യ (Slōvākya)
tam: ஸ்லொவாக்கியா (Slovākkiyā)
tel: స్లొవాకియా (Slovākiyā)
zho: 斯洛伐克 (Sīluòfákè)
yue: 斯洛伐克 (Sīlāaifahāk)
jpn: スロヴァキア (Surovakia); スロバキア (Surobakia)
kor: 슬로바키아 (Seullobakia)
bod: སི་ལོ་ཕ་ཁེ་ (Si.lo.pʰa.kʰe.); སི་ལོ་ཏྥུ་ཁེ་ (Si.lo.tpʰu.kʰe.)
mya: ဆလုိဗက္ကီးယား (Sʰálobeʿkìyà)
tha: สโลวาเกีย (Salōwākiya)
lao: ສະໂລວາກີ (Salōvākī)
khm: ស្លូវ៉ាគី (Slūvākī)